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“The data shows that most of the residents (of Tindall Heights and the nearby Unionville neighborhood) are living at or below the poverty gap,” said Cooper, noting a graduation rate for Southwest High School of less than 40 percent. But there may be hope for that troubled part of Macon.

If you haven't seen the hit movie "Moneyball," it's the story of Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane, portrayed by Brad Pitt. He figured out how to make the 2002 A's, with about $41 million in salaries (the lowest in the league), competitive with wealthier teams who spent more than $125...

An exciting model for this investment is Promise Neighborhoods, a program to improve educational outcomes for children, based on the success achieved by the Harlem Children's Zone, by wrapping youngsters in educational, health and social services from cradle through college to career.

Over the next five years, just over 1,000 families in an 18-by-13-block area of North Minneapolis will be participating in a $28 million social experiment. What is at stake is much more than money; what is at stake is the future of these families’ 3,000 children, and perhaps, insofar as it could...

Even before the Promise Neighborhood concept was developed, the foundation for the Northside Achievement Zone (NAZ) was being laid as Peace Foundation members turned their attention from violence, a symptom, to education, the plausible solution, causing the Geoffrey Canada model Obama spoke...

The Urban League of Greater Madison on Thursday named Peng Her to lead its ambitious initiative to challenge the people and institutions of south Madison to fulfill the promise of the community. Based on the Harlem's Children's Zone, the goal is to return a better bang for the buck from public...

In April the School Reform Commission voted to give Kenny Gamble's Universal permission to convert both Audenried High School and Vare Middle School to "Promise Neighborhood Partnership Charters" as part of Universal's proposed Promise Neighborhood.

The new center is the health partner in the Buffalo Promise Neighborhood redevelopment initiative to help residents from cradle through college. The five-year plan also calls for a new early childhood center, home rehabilitation and improved accessibility to social and health services in the...

Community leaders in Macon spent part of their weekend brainstorming ways to improve schools in the Tindall Heights and Unionville neighborhoods during a meeting for the Macon Children's Promise Neighborhood project.

Leaders in towns throughout the 1st Congressional District Thursday night brought these and other concerns to U.S. Rep. Robert Andrews (D, Haddon Heights) during what Andrews called a roundtable discussion of troubling issues, in troubling times.

By sharing resources, expertise, and accountability, community schools can address challenges related to economic hardship and create essential conditions for learning by concentrating on a single access point—public schools—to effectively target their efforts. Any type of public school can...

Local elected officials and community leaders gathered on January 13 to announce that a $500,000 Promise Neighborhood planning grant from the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) had been procured for the children of the Astoria Houses.

As with nearly any conversation that takes place these days about education, the key issue was the Achievement Gap. Angelique Kedem, from St. Paul’s Promise Neighborhood called to mind Brown vs. Board of Education, which in 1954 ordered desegregation of American schools. What we have now, Kedem...

The U.S. Department of Education recently selected five communities to receive the first round of Promise Neighborhoods multi-year implementation grants and another 15 communities to receive a second round of one-year planning grants

In this economy, the D.C. Promise Neighborhood Initiative is working to build a cradle-to-career pipeline of intensive support to keep children and their families on the road to success that has for too long bypassed them. This includes evidence-based approaches such as home visitation for teen...

A steering committee made of people focused on helping low-income students has been meeting for over a year. The hope was to receive a Promise Neighborhoods Planning Grant to fund their initiatives. Now all that hard work and dedication has paid off, and $470,000 will speed up the mission

A community school is a place and a set of partnerships connecting a school, the families of students, and the surrounding community. A community school is distinguished by an integrated focus on academics, youth development, family support, health and social services, and community development....

President Obama announced Monday that Berea College is one of five Promise Neighborhood implementation grant recipients. This cradle-to-career initiative will fund work in Clay, Jackson and Owsley counties.

A steering group representing Shawnee and parts of Portland and Russell has been turned down for the second year in a row for a $500,000 federal Promise Neighborhood planning grant from the U.S. Department of Education.

And now, for some good news about education in Minnesota. December has been a good month for the state, with word that three separate streams of federal dollars are flowing into the state to improve our education system. A $28 million Promise Neighborhood implementation grant goes to the...